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RVICES IN HONGKONG
(Final)
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considered a report by the Joint Planning
the arrangements to be made for the command
8 in Hongkong after the resumption of
the colony.
NOHAM said that he was in full
eport and with the attached annoxoa,
ral agreement with this view,
wod the report by the Joint Planning
ff and the toxt of the draft letter annox to the roport, and instructed
Secretary to despatch the lotter the Colonial Offico.
d Service Ministries to issuo ised directives to their Survico rosentatives in Hongkong when the currence of the Colonial Office to
terms of the draft talogram to tho ornor of Hongkong, attached as an endix to the draft letter to tho onial Office, had boon received.
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319T MU, 1946
CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
JOINT PLANING STAFF
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COMMAND OF SERVICES IN HONG KONG
Report by th: Joint Planning Staff
In accordance with instructions we have revised our previous report* on the arrangements to be made for the Command of the three Services in Hong Kong after the return of the Civil Governor. We have consulted the Colonial office
2. We have taken into account:-
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(a) the views expressed by the Chiefs of Staff;
(b) a letter from the Colonial office, enclosing
a draft tele.fram from the Colonial Office
to the Governor of Hong Kong;
(c) the views of Admiral Harcourt which are
contained in three telegrams to the Chiefs of Stuff.
Introduction
3. In a separate paper, we have proposed that local command arrangements in Colonial territories should be standardised on the following lines;-
(a) Inter-service co-ordination should be effected by
a committee of the local Service Commanders;
(b) Co-ordination of civil and Service requirements
should be undertaken by Local Defence Committees comprising local Commanders under the chairmanship of the Head Political Representative of His Majesty's Government.
Against this background we examine the particular case of
Hong Kong.
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0.0.8.(45) 79th utg., Item 5.
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0.0.8.(46) 36.
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TA.548, 956 and 967.
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